We Have The Latest Official PHP 5.6.0 Installed On All Our Servers

Finally we’ve installed the latest bugfix-only version of PHP 5.6.0 on all our Hepsia based web hosting servers. With the whole bunch of improvements and new features, the release candidate showed all the potential to become the new stable version of PHP.

This is why, it comes as no surprise that the PHP Development Team announced today the immediate availability of the new official PHP version – PHP 5.6.0.

This new release comes with new features, some backward-incompatible changes and many improvements.

Here are some of the key features of PHP 5.6.0, as announced on the official PHP site:

Constant scalar expressions – numeric and string literals and/or constants are now allowed in static-value contexts, such as constant and property declarations or default function arguments

Variadic functions and argument unpacking using the ‘…’ operator – the variadic functions can now be implemented through the ‘…’ operator instead of the func_get_args() function

Exponentiation using the ** operator – a right-associative ** operator and a **= shorthand assignment operator have been added to support exponentiation

Function and constant importing with the use keyword -the use operator now supports importing functions (via the use function construct) and constants (via the use const construct), apart from classes

A phpdbg debugger -PHP now includes an interactive debugger called phpdbg, which is implemented as a SAPI module

php://input is now reusable and allows for reading raw data from the request body